Books

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Hi,

What lightweight and inspiring books do you recommend, apart from K&R ?

Regards.

 

[Rich Webb]

Hi,

What lightweight and inspiring books do you recommend, apart from K&R ?

H&S. That's "C: A Reference Manual" by Harbison and Steele. Info at
http://www.careferencemanual.com/

 

[Spiros Bousbouras]

Hi,

What lightweight and inspiring books do you recommend, apart from K&R ?

Alex Comfort's "The joy of sex" is not too big *and* inspiring for a
certain sense of the word.

 

[_me_]

On 5/4/2009 8:25 PM, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
<snipped>

Please keep your great inspirations out of c.l.c, at least the unrelated
ones ...

Thanks

 

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Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
<snip>

I know many people who like to make fun of others while can not stand
same happen to themselves. Unfortunately I am one of them .

Now in case you are not one of those guys, here is a book I like to
recommend to you. To be fair I have not read it. Just judging from the
name :

Common Nonsense (Hardcover)
by Andy Rooney

 

[kid joe]

Hi,

What lightweight and inspiring books do you recommend, apart from K&R ?

Hi ,

I learned C from K+R but I found it a bit too brief in lots of places.
What I did was I just picked up a random book from a used bookstore to
compliment K+R, "Ansi C made easy" by Herbert Shult. I found it really
clear and easy to read, so Id recommend that if you can find it (I think
its out of print).

Cheers,
Joe


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[user923005]

Hi,

What lightweight and inspiring books do you recommend, apart from K&R ?

This book is pretty good:
http://knking.com/books/c2/

Avoid Schildt.

See also:
http://users.powernet.co.uk/eton/clc/cbooks.html
http://knking.com/recbooks/c.html

After looking over these books, go to your local library and browse
through them if possible.
That will give you a good idea of which of these books appeals to you
most.

 

[Keith Thompson]

Hi ,

I learned C from K+R but I found it a bit too brief in lots of places.
What I did was I just picked up a random book from a used bookstore to
compliment K+R, "Ansi C made easy" by Herbert Shult. I found it really
clear and easy to read, so Id recommend that if you can find it (I think
its out of print).

You probably mean Herbert Schildt. If so, I hope you've been able to
unlearn whatever you learned from that book.

For scathing reviews of some of his books:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/schildt.html
http://accu.org/index.php?module=bookreviews&func=search&rid=1190
http://accu.org/index.php?module=bookreviews&func=search&rid=214

 

[CBFalconer]

I learned C from K+R but I found it a bit too brief in lots of
places. What I did was I just picked up a random book from a
used bookstore to compliment K+R, "Ansi C made easy" by Herbert
Shult. I found it really clear and easy to read, so Id recommend
that if you can find it (I think its out of print).

If you mean Herbert Schildt his books are generally referred to as
"bull schildt", and consider eminently satisfactory for heating (by
burning).

He can write clearly, but what he writes is generally in error.

 

[luserXtrog]

Hi,

What lightweight and inspiring books do you recommend, apart from K&R ?

Regards.

Expert C Programming
by Peter Van Der Linden
is ++good!

 

[Chris H]

None, unless if you only have one edition of K&R,
then I would also recommend the other one.

There are two copyright dates: 1978, 1988.

These are 21 and 31 years old. The language has moved a long way since
then. There are many more up to date books

 

[Guest]

"Jonathon Livingstone, Seagull"
"The Art of War"

These are 21 and 31 years old. The language has moved a long way since
then. There are many more up to date books

The 1989 C standard is still in wide use and is the most portable
version of the C standard. The 1988 version of K&R covers c89.

The older version of K&R covers what is referred to as "K&R C" this
is mostly od historical use (though I did patch a K&R C program
recently...).

 

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"Jonathon Livingstone, Seagull"
"The Art of War"

<snip>

Hi,

Maybe you could write a review on these, how have these inspired you?
Maybe I can become interested in these too ...


Thanks.

 

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On 5/4/2009 7:26 PM, wrote:
<snip>

Thanks guys. Now I suppose some reviews are waiting to be read. And dont
worry, I have already heard about the "C author" who does not bother to
publish an errata.

 

[Chris H]

<snip>

Hi,

Maybe you could write a review on these, how have these inspired you?
Maybe I can become interested in these too ...

No point,. You have to read them yourself. Both are Zen type books.

 

[:)]

No point,. You have to read them yourself. Both are Zen type books.

Hi,
No, I do not have to.

 

[Chris H]

Hi,
No, I do not have to.

Your loss

 

[:)]

Your loss

Life is short ...

 

[Chris H]

Life is short ...

Said the man who refused to look at something to make life better.

 

[Guest]

Chris H wrote:

request for reveiw of Sun Tsu and Jonathon Livingstone

No, I do not have to.

neither is very big. A decent review would be nearly as big as the
books themselves- and would lose ... something.